Cabinet for sound-records.



J. oGDEN. CABINET FoR souND RECORDS. APPLICATION FILED OCT. I2. |914.

1,167,206, Patented Jan. 4, 1916.

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' Joan rnowNrNG oennm' or LYNCHBURG, vrnemm. V

. CABINET FOB SOUND-RECORDS.

To a'Z-l 'whom 'it may concern.' I

Be, it known that I, JOHN B.1OeDEN,--a

citizen' of the United States, 'residing at' Lynchburg, in, the county of Campbell .and

State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Cabinet for Sound-Records, of which the'followingv is a. specification.

. This invention has reference to cabinets for sound records, and is designed particu- 10,1a'rly for the storage-ofdisk sound recordswith the disks setting on edge in such manner o that liability of warping of the disks is obviated.

It has heretofore been the custom to store. disk4 sound records either on ed e or vlying flat one on 4the other, but bot of these schemes while advantageous in some respects, have disadvantages in other respects. yIn the customary manner of storing disk sound records on edge a considerable number of' records are stored in a single compart-l ment, and unless the compartment is practically full and so maintained the record disks are liable to slant and then they warp more or less'.l This warping,', ofcourse, 1s detrimental, and in-order to avoid so preva` lent a deleterouscondition 'it has been .propqsed to stack the disk records fiat, but while the iiat orhorizontal position of the recordsprevents warping, lit becomes difficult to remove any of the records except those at With the present invention the records 4are stored in the upright position and auto matically. maintain such position whether there be but one record in a compartment' or the compartment be substantially full of records, while there is no interferencewith n' the ready removal of an -desired record in a compartment. Since t e record disks are maintained in the upright position under some llateral pressure at considerably spaced points, there is no tendency for the record l y disks to warp and any chosen oneof a group of disks in a compartment may be removed'- without disturbing the others or .interfering with the maintenance 'of the truev upright posltlon. l In a cabmet constructed vin accordance with the present invention there are nu merous compartments provided, and in each '1 compartment broad .leaf rings are mounted readily yieldable vto t e introduction of the record or record diskand its re Specifica.'tion-ot I-.etters Patent. Applicatlonled- 0ctoberl2, 1914. Serial No. 866,841 f Patented Jan. 4, 1916.

lmoyal from the. compartment,l while these springs are so arranged-as to have a normal tendency yto'eirtendwholly across vthe particular, compartment, but maybe moved to the same side of the compartment from which' they aextend;l By this .means thel springs which are spaced apart in the directionof the height of the compartment readily .hold .a single record disk flat against th opposite Wall'- of the compartment, o`rthese springs will hold as many disks as the corn-Y partment will hbld at the ,same time maintaining-the disks in the true upright position..

The invention contemplates thel employmentof a sto member which may be introduced,if deslred, so that the compartments may be initially made to hol'd the larger record disks, namely, those twelve inches in diameter, or they may be made to'hold the smaller record disks which are tenl inches in diameter and-in 'each instance those .edges of the disks presented toward thefront o'f the 'cabinetare'allin substantially the same upright plane extending transversely.v of. the cabinet. T his not only produces a neat appearance, butl brings all the disks into position for being readily graspedlin case it is gesired to remove anyone or more of the isks.

The invention will be4 best'- understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connectlon w1th.

formi-ng a part the accompanying drawiu of this specification, with" he further understanding1 that while the drawings show a practical'form of the invention, the latter is not confined to any strict conformity with -the showingY of the drawings, but may be changed and modified so long as vsuch changes and modifications mark no materlal departure from thev salient features o f the invention. A

-In the drawings :A--Figure 1' is a front elevationof a portion of a cabinet made in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a front to rear vertical section of a. por-f tion -of the cabinet. 1 Fi i 3 is a section on? the line -3'3 of Fig. 2, s owing some record disks in place.

A, For. convenience of manufacture, transportation, and stora e the cabinet .may be made. of sections, a r'themanner of the familiar sectional bookcase, but itis to be understood that the cabinet may be made as, `a single piece of furniture with the sectional idea omitted.. Since each section of the cabinet may be like the others, the description to follow willbe-limited to a description oit one section; The cabinet, therefore,is made upofsections 1 each provided with a door 2, which may have a glass pane 3 and is a hook 4 upon a pivot pin 5 at each end, so l usually so constructed. The door ma)T be hung in the manner customary iii sectional bookcases, that. is, the dooris suspended by that when the door is in the closed position it is pendently supported -by the pins 5.' When, however, it is desired tvo open the.

door it is swung upwardly around the pivot pins 5 and then `moved in wardlyluiitil housed in the casing ofthe cabinet section. lit 1s customary to provide such doors with means for faciitating the movements thereof, but

f partment structure may be arranged vfor ready insertion in one. of thecabinet vsections or removal therefrom, or it may be'xedly A,built into the section. Each partition 7 is f since the front j near one end, and from t suitably spaced from its neighbors, and the end partitions are suitably spaced from. the end walls of the cabinet, one such end wall being indicatedl at 10. These partitions each have what constitutes the front edge cut out or notched, as ,indicatedl at 11, for

permitting access to the record disks, such as indicated at 12 and. 13, respectively, 1n

kF ig. 2, with or withouty the customary envelops indicated at 14C 'in 1 and 3,

exposed e ges of these disks are all in the' same vertical Aplane transverse of the cabinet and close tothe partitions.y l l 'Secured tov each partition 7 near the front edge'thereof and above and below' thelnotch I v are flat orv leaf springs` l5, the fastening deto vices indicated at 16 traversiiigithese springs S point the springs are bent away tromI the respective partition toward the next partition in order,

.and -then returned for a portion of the dis- .tance by a'gentle curve :indicated-at 17,- soI -that there' 'is always. left a short space bei tween the free extremit of a spring 15 and thel partitiontoward .w iich it tends. Similarsprings are attached to one end'lO of the cabinet, and those of the lastpartition 7 in order to engage the other end of-theI cabinet, as-will be readily understoo d although" ,this

feature is not ,shown in the drawings. y

Each partition 7 is provided witiral passage 18'V near its rear edge, and these pas:

.i he com menace sages .are all in line, so as to be traversed by i a rodI 19.

Since under-present conditions the largest i' sound record disks on the market are twelve inches in diameter, the cabinet, and especially the-compartment portion thereof, is so proportioned that a twelve inch sound record disk indicated .at 12 in Fig. 2 when placed in the cabinet either with or without the inclosing envelop 149 will engage the rear strip 9, at which time the front of the record disk or the envelop carrying it is about coin? cident with the front edge-of the partitions 7 defining thel compartment' -in which the record disk has been placed. rllhe insertion of such a disk, (and hereinafter the term disk will be used' to mean the disk without the envelop or the disk with the envelop, as the case may be,) causes a-crresponding compression of the springs 15 of the compartment by engaging the curved portion 17 thereof. The normal tension of the springs' 15 is such that the inser disk is forcedlat against the corresponding wall of the next partition 7 in order, and these springs en-4 gaging the disk on opposite sides of its center along an upright line which may correspond quite closely to the -uprightl diameter of the disk, hold the latter at spaced points. When other disks are inserted iii the saine compartment, the springs are-still further compressed and therefore hold the disks with ,l I

added force, which however is advantageous since as the 'numberot disksiiiserted infA creases the tendency pf these disks to fall over correspondingly increases. The inserpartment is full, or may stop at any point when the spaced springs bearing at correspondingly spaced points on the disks with which they engage force the disks evenly against the other wall of the compartment,

but whatever be the number 'of disks in the compartment they are always held in face to face contact and against the opposite wall of the compartment from the springs, wherefore there is no opportunity or tendency to Warp, since-the disks are invariably upright -upon the edges supporting them. llf it be desired to store ten inch sound record disks .in the cabinet, the rod 19 is inserted through the passages 18, and then serves as a stop limiting the extent of insertion of the disks that the front edge of a ten inch disk occupies .about the same position aszis occupied by 'a 'twelve inch disk when abutting against'the 'tion of disks may continue until the coniin the compartments. This rod is so placed stop member 9. vB using rods 19|of lessl length '-tha'nthe .ful width of the' cabinetsome of the compartments 'in the saine horizontal rowk may be employed for the storage of twelve inch disks and other comparte ments for thestorage of ten inch disks. 1

The'two sizes of sound record disksgiven are those, almost universally in use, but 'it it .b desired t 'accommodate disks f oth-eff sizes, such as seven or eight'inch disks, which have been madeinthe :pasti it 4 is only nece8- are so. locatedthat, they-:will engage :di

for ten and twelvetinchdis 'thesprin 1g eithensize at spaced Apoints above'below v theicen't'er ofthe disk,thn shdlding the disks. flat against that wall ot. a..compartment Topposite the wall carrying the spx-ail s .,15. f

of disks fromthe compartmentis not at all detrimental tqfthe, disks because v*they yare .protected by. their inclosing .envelops and' the movement of thebroadfiatsprings along such l envelops isharmless, such movement occurring as the springsapproach the oppo-.' site wall vof thecompartmentor recede therefrom.V i Moreover, -the springsare readily located seas to'avoidthe customary label displaying openingprovidedf atl'the -centers of l the v:horizontal vcenter 'of the compartment, whereby the'v records when inserted throughv the protecting en velops.

In Fig. raler-eis; shown. @habiter frfnea of two superposed. n iernbers with the upper member havingthe protecting door open and two of the compartmentsprovided with' twelve and'ten':inchf'reord disks, respec-.j tively.' The lower member is shownwitl'l two compartments containing twelve inch disks, each of the lower compartmentshaving a less number of disks therein than tpe n tions are indicated in dotted lines, onel showing a twelve inch disk and the other a ten -inch disk. In Fig. 3 two adjacent compartments are shown with twelve and ten inch disks, respectively, and as the number of disks in the two compartments lof Fig. 3

diffe-r, the springs 15 -are differently 'com-4 pressed to a. corresponding degree. In Figs.

1 and 3 the rod 19 is shown as traversing a. portion only of the number of compartments there displayed, but it will be understood that the rod may extend throughout all the compartments, so that the particular cabinet memberv may be then limited to teninch disks, lor .the rod may be omitted en-' tirely, in which case th'e cabinet member would be. .a.da.pted to contain twelve inch 4disks throughout all its compartments.

The record holding or filing cabinet of the present invention is particularly useful in salesrooms, whereby each compartment mayl be reserved for a group ofgrecords of' one number or composition,'or may contain twp or more such groups each made up ofan appropriate number `of disks. The cabinet has the advantage 4of convenience in the storage of records with protection from dust' 'lilharm aswell as providin an attractive'v piece of l o iture for the sa esroom. The cab'met has alsothe' further i advantage. of,

maintainin .all-records ;whether';..or

few in num orina'-practically'trnenpri ht '.p'osition, sov that all tendency, of the recor. to '.1 warp because of unequal support land rthe tiltin o :fl the record .is avoided, while each i recor .isreadily accessible atall times,il.re.l

spective of the presence of other recordsyend the inconvenience incident to lpilingrecords :one on top of the other is who 1."A' storage cabinet for soundurecord disks having a series of compartments therein formed by a plurality of. upright partitions, the., compartments being openat the their length, und thence curvedawa'y from the ylast-mentioned partition,said springs being-arranged in. .pairs `in each'. compartmentwith one spring above and the other below the open'. front of the compartments are l,caused to strike the springs near their :ias-y j tened ends, and when the records are mplace4 the springs. engage the records, en the op- 2. -A storage cabinet for soundV vreco-rd disks hav-ing a series of upright partitions, a bottom member carrying the partitions and a rear member connecting the partitions and serving as a stop, said partitions each carry- {posite sides of the horizontal diameter and l. vgsubstantially at the vertical-diameter, soI as .to lmaintain the records on in anupright position and prevent warping.

ing springs, each spring being connected at one end to the corresponding wall of a partition near the front edge, and having a normal tendency to engage the corresponding wall of the next partition in order, said partitions .with their connecting partsl and springs being bodil removable as a unitA from and insertible Into the cabinet..

3. A v'storage cabinet for sound record` ,inprovided with upright partitions and each l` disks having a series of compartments there- A compartment having flat leaf springs secured to one side wall of the compartment near the front end thereof and thence di` rected toward the other wall of the compartbelow the mid point of thelheight -oftlie compartment-,each compartment having its front to rear' depth sulliclent to accomodate a record disk .of largest diameter and said compartments being also provided 'with readily removable stop means situated at 130 distance from the ront oi the partment eoonding to the dieter of a :miller i. n Se ments being provided with stop me for record disks of a petermined diameter and other stop m in the form of a removable rodi the partitions provided `with alined passe or the'ptiono the f 5. Astorage cabinet for. eonnd record disks herring a series of upright pertitions,

I one wall n set of lent eprings eech co. et one end to the coong wall oi a partitiim near the iront edge of the partition a' bottom member cog the (partitions, end a top member jo and' spacing the partitions, together with e r member oonneeg the partitions end ser asa etop member, the d pnrtitions each ca r r m g 1on d ha :mfg anormal tendency to enga the orde thfte iree renrnend o the sprinxfgf7 bentbonhwnrd toward the'parhition earig,7

binet for sound rd. having a series of upright partitions Ily` deg compartments with each compartim .1| mq wall of the next 1lipartition in inning/eee f it, seid partitions with their connecting parte end fr# being bodil removable from and insertileinto the ca inet.

t ha n series of npright partitions',

`n, bottom member eorryingth'e .pertitions and a top'member joim and Vsplicing the :n 6. A lstorage cabinet for sound recordl s partitions, tother'with a rear member" connecting the pnrtitions and servin as a stop member, the said partitions eac carrying on one well a set .of leaf springs veachA con;

nected et one end to the eorrespondingvrall of a portition near the front edge oi the par ytuition and he onormal tendency to enge the oo a ending wall ot the next artion in order ith the free-rear end o the '.nt bach toward thepartition car-s g it, mid partitions `with their conneetin? ports and spr' bein bodily removab e'from and inserti t into the cabinet, and mid partitions having alined passages near their rends land a rod adapted to the'pases and serving as a stop member tor reeo of ller diameter then those accom- .milneted by the nrstnamed' stop member.

we: in, that l claim the foregoing es my own l have hereto eed my siatnre inthe pnce oftrvo Witnesses.`

v @HN BRO WNIING UGDEN. Wim:

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